Glamour & Damnation [Paperback]

Regent St. Claire (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 25, 2001

Everyone has a secret heart, that for whatever reason they choose not to (or simply can't) show the world. A dark and cloudy face painted beneath a tattered shawl of scars on their souls. Romance is a shadowy thing, cutting our hearts so deep as it slips through our amateur fingers. "G&D" is a tattered, macabre, sweet, grocery list/love letter of these hidden wounds that touch the deepest core of everyone, not just the obvious and unaddressed hunger of devotees of Goth, O'Barr, Trent Reznor, and Rimbaud.

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About the Author

Regent St. Claire released his first Glam album in 1985. He began writing music, film reviews, and celebrity interviews for national entertainment magazines after his inevitable sojourn to The City Of (broken) Angels in 1987. He currently lives in Santa Monica, California, routinely delving into the mysteries of getting enough sleep.

Product Details

• Paperback: 164 pages
• Publisher: iUniverse (July 25, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0595191436
• ISBN-13: 978-0595191437
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,608,858 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Glamour & Damnation, October 31, 2001

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Shann Dornhecker (City with lots of bloody feathers and dazed looks from lost innocence) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Glamour & Damnation (Paperback)

I am loathe to write, as my poor attempts at description are amateurish compared to the other reviews that I have read about this book, however, I feel compelled to say something about a text that is human, moving, loving and yet dark, grim and humorously disturbing at the same time.

"In the Tongue of the Talking Bed" is one of the most real moments of human loss of love and bittersweet rememberance that everyone who has ever had a deep love will identify with. For a matter of fact, flip to any one of the poems and the only way it won't move you is if you're not from this planet (or a sociopath and even then, I think there's a chance that a sociopath would be moved in some small way).

Buy it, and buy one for a friend, it will be a tome to talk about and your friend will honestly thank you for it. (I speak from experience on this one-).

5.0 out of 5 stars REGENT ST. CLAIRE, AN ORIGINAL EERIE SCRIBE, October 28, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Glamour & Damnation (Paperback)

Regent St. Claire explores the gray area between evil and innocence, as the dark flip side of human nature. Regent's first book "Altered States of Grace" had read like its very own haunted theatre. Beautiful, also with such melodic melancholy that its all so very intense, so much that it gets so hard to digest at times that it compels me to read on. I can't wait to get my hands on his new book, "Glamour & Damnation". And, by the way, check out his project "Candyappleblack" at its very own website, for a bigger taste of the supernatural side of his imagination.

5.0 out of 5 stars Dancing in the moondrops, October 28, 2001

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"unslain" (The heart of it all) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Glamour & Damnation (Paperback)

Somehow, unknowingly, the world today has been let loose on a constant campaign to lose more and more of the grip on things that really matter, things that make a difference... feelings that are meant to lie just beneath the surface... the very essence of the liquid tears that run from the flame and harden into rivers of substance.

I am glad to say that now, Regent St. Claire may be the one to make the world stop rolling off its own edge... and to make it listen... both in times of Glamour and in spells of Damnation.

His raw angst and passion colour his words with a depth and clarity that transpose his thoughts unerringly right through the keyholes of those special places in your heart and your mind that many of us strive to keep hidden, dusty and cold, and that will unlock you from within. His poetry is unencumbered by rules, regulations or sterotypes, and is as is... refreshingly fresh and excitingly exciting as one of the most genuine collection of poems that I have had the pleasure of coming across.

In a world of rising waves overhead and raging currents underneath... Glamour & Damnation travels in the space between... deep, rich, thick and weightless. Finally, a book that returns the age-old romance of reading. Three sweet cheers and a black apple to Mr. St. Claire.